Associate Vice President, Paint & Home Repair

What you’ll do

The Associate Vice President, Paint & Home Repair is a product focused, results driven, customer centric leader who can champion the development of a best-in-class assortment and experience for our customers. This leader will need to have strong product knowledge, a proven ability to activate customer data and analytics in strategy development and business management, and an ability to identify, develop and execute new business opportunities through an omni channel approach that will grow our consumer base and maximize financial returns to the business.

• Manage a team of high performing category managers by providing leadership, coaching and development; ensure entire team is focused on delivering against key priorities.
• Build the best product assortments while leading inventory management discipline for all categories to ensure the team is consistently meeting or exceeding sales, margin, and inventory targets.
• Lead collaboration between Category management teams and cross functional support teams to enable the development and execution of category strategies and programs that are grounded in a deep understanding of industry trends, customer data and market opportunities.
• Lead a team to understand opportunities in new markets and provide analysis/recommendations for pursuing them.
• Build and manage key relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the annual planning, seasonal planning, assortment management and line review processes within Home Comfort and Hardware.
• Accountabilities include sales and margin growth, establishment and management of line reviews, advertising planning and inventory forecast validation management.

What you bring

• 10 years of experience in the retail industry; as a buyer, in-store operations, marketing, merchandising, finance or as a consumer-packaged goods vendor; ideally direct category management/merchandising experience.
• At least 5 years leadership/management experience with a strong propensity for team building, coaching and mentoring.
• Proven ability to develop, manage and motivate a top caliber team around a compelling vision.
• Highly effective relationship management skills with a track record of developing, selling and executing programs collaboratively.
• Thorough understanding of the business, growth, change management, systems and process management.
• Strong financial acumen and strategic mindset.
• Superb collaboration, joint problem solving and influencing skills.
• Strong track record of driving results and performance transformation.
• University Degree preferred.

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.